out of the celluloid closet

A queer film student's little passion project. READ PINNED POST! A collection of international Queer films. Every post has a drive link attached so you can download and watch the movie. (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) Reblog to get it out there and enjoy!

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Welcome to the Celluloid Rainbow! There's a drive (or youtube) link for the films beneath every gifset! Here's the catalog on letterboxd, for easy browsing. Be mindful of trigger warnings, check for more information online if needed, and please reblog to spread the word if you download!

EDIT: New plan! since my drive is full I’ve decided to make a profile on ok.ru and put the films there. All the previous posts are STILL LINKED TO MY DRIVE so don’t worry about that those are still working, and since I still have some left to go over there a few new films may be linked to the drive as well. HERE is the site I use to download ok.ru videos (let me know if it’s ever down!), and HERE is opensubs, so you can find subtitles in the language you prefer! There’s also a firefox add-on to download directly from ok.ru HERE.

EDIT2 (IMPORTANT!): I’m taking a break from this blog (life is a bit of a rush rn), and don’t know for how long exactly BUT!! there’s currently 900+ films on this blog ! Get to watching!!!

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西北西 | WEST NORTH WEST (2015) dir. Takuro Nakamura Kei works at a cocktail bar, while Ai works as a model. Fearing she’ll be ostracized by society, Kei chooses not to admit her sexual orientation to anyone, and, as a result, she becomes distressed and lonely. One day, Kei gets close to Naima, an Iranian student studying art in Japan. Ai quickly becomes jealous of them and their budding relationship. Kei gradually becomes pessimistic as she thinks about a future with Ai, and Ai worries that she will lose Kei. In the meantime, Naima is having a hard time understanding what Kei wants despite growing closer to her. All three of them are embarrassed and insecure but eventually they begin to share their emotions. (link in title)

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GIRL STROKE BOY (1971) dir. Bob Kellett Two ageing parents think they are quite progressive in their thinking because they are fine with the fact that their son Laurie is going to bring home his West Indian girlfriend to visit for the first time. Their moral compass begins to spin though when their son arrives with the androgynous Jo, whom they are not sure is either female or male, leading to uncomfortable conversations and situations between them all as the parents try to work out their son’s sexuality and his partner’s gender. (link in title)

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PLATA QUEMADA (2000) dir. Marcelo Piñeyro Argentina, 1965. Romantic partners Nene and Angel and their partner in crime Cuervo are bank robbers who flee to Uruguay after a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, but when Angel is hurt the three must lay low until he recovers. To get back to Argentina, the group must first wait for Fontana, the brains behind the robbery, to arrange for passports, but it doesn’t take long for the forced procimity and the ever-present fear of discovery to gnaw away at their minds. Based on a real story. (link in title)

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BACURAU (2019) dir. Juliano Dornelles & Kleber Mendonça Filho Bacurau, a small settlement in Brazil’s remote backcountry, is shaken by the death of its elderly matriarch. But something strange is happening in the village, and there’s little time for mourning. The water supply has been cut off, animals are stampeding through the streets, and empty coffins are turning up on the roadside. One morning, the villagers wake up to find their home has disappeared from satellite maps completely. Under threat from an unknown enemy, Bacurau braces itself for a bloody, brutal fight for survival. (link in title)

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SWEETHEART (2021) dir. Marley Morrison A socially awkward, environmentally conscious teenager named AJ is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully ‘normal’ family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla. (link in title)

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LA BOCCA DEL LUPO (2009) dir. Pietro Marcello Enzo returns to Genoa after a lengthy absence. He crosses the city in search of places he remembers from before but they have been inexorably changed by passing time. He finds Mary waiting for him at the small house in the ghetto of the old city. His life-long companion and former cell-mate, she has been waiting for Enzo to return from the prison where he was serving time. (link in title)

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LIV OG DØD (1980) dir. Petter Vennerød & Svend Wam Jacob, a doctor, falls in love with John, a medical student at his hospital. Jacob’s wife Jennifer is, at first, against the relationship, but gradually a deep relationship grows between the three… (link in title)

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A MOMENT IN THE REEDS (2017) dir. Mikko Mäkelä Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi’s father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and spend a few days discovering one another during the Finnish midsummer. (link in title)

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LA NAVE DEL OLVIDO (2020) dir. Nicol Ruiz Benavides Claudina is a traditional woman from the countryside. After the pass away of her husband, she gets into a lonely routine. Having a difficult economic situation, Claudina has to move with her dearest grandson Cristóbal, and her daughter Alejandra, knowing that both women have a distanced relationship. Living together, Claudina meets the neighbor Elsa, an independent and married woman who sings on a hidden bar called “Porvenir” (The Future.) Claudina starts a relationship with Elsa, getting in love. Since then, she develops a journey of self-knowledge to be free, under the judgment of her daughter and friends on a religious and conservatory little town, obsessed with UFO sighting. (link in title)

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MYSTÈRE ALEXINA (1985) dir. René Féret In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop’s physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina’s sole purpose and hope. (link in title)

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MALA MALA (2014) dir. Antonio Santini Exploring the lives of young Puerto Ricans in the trans community, Mala Mala captures the relationship between cultural life in one of the only colonized territories still governed by the United States and the experience of citizens who themselves inhabit deeply dualistic identities. (link in title)

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INXEBA (2017) dir. John Trengove Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani’s best kept secret: that he is in love with another man. (link in title)

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THE MONKEY’S MASK (2000) dir. Samantha Lang Jill Fitzpatrick is a 28-year old, street-smart, out-of-work private investigator wishing she wasn’t celibate. Eager for the taste of adrenaline, she accepts a job investigating the disappearance of Mickey, a young female student. Jill quickly strikes a spark with the seductive Diana, Mickey’s poetry lecturer. But it is not long before Mickey’s strangled body is found. Distrusting the cops, Mickey’s grief-stricken parents ask Jill to find her murderer. Jill is soon hurled into a passionate liaison with Diana as she enters the surprisingly seamy underworld of Mickey’s life, looking for clues to her murder. For whom did Mickey write her sexually charged poems? What is the connection between Mickey and her two favorite poets? Who is leaving threatening messages in verse on Jill’s answering machine? Blinded by her passion, Jill is compromised in her search for the truth - until her own life is in danger. (link in title)

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PRINCESA (2001) dir. Henrique Goldman Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian trans woman, wishes to find a husband and lead the life of a “normal” housewife. Fernanda goes to Milan and works as a prostitute to raise money for a sex-change operation. On the streets she is transformed into Princesa - a stylish and alluring figure who makes a lot of money and many friends among the prostitutes and clients. When she meets Gianni, a straight-laced, married businessman who falls in love with her, it all seems too good to be true. Based on a biographical book by the real life Fernanda. (link in title)

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DESPERATE REMEDIES (1993) dir. Stewart Main & Peter Wells In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain’s empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy? (link in title)

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FAUSTRECHT DER FREIHEIT (1975) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder Fox is a young, gay member of the German working class. When he meets the older and dapper Max, who has upper-class roots, Fox thinks he may have found someone to help him out, but Max refuses to do so. However, this changes when Fox wins big on the lottery, and Max becomes friendlier and helps to reinvent Fox. But, in fact, Max and his friends are slyly trying to swindle him out of his new fortune. (link in title)